Saturday, 19 January 2013

Day 52 - adding the third brood box

Time to add the third 3/4 brood box. The stronger hive seems very ready for it, the weaker could wait a while but easier to do both together.

Hard at work
We did not bother going into the bottom boxes on this visit but did look through the top box. All looked good, lots of capped brood and our first sight of some drone brood.
Ana had trouble turning the frames over to inspect especially those with a lot of honey, the weight is just a little much. Having full depth frames would be even worse.

Lots of flowering still going on so it will be interesting to see what they get up to this week.

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